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Gulf Daily News Friday, 29th August 2014
LOS ANGELES: Brad and
Angelina: it is rare that celebrities can be instantly recognised by their first names.
It’s even rarer that two can
be immediately identified by
one moniker.
French wedding for Mr and Mrs Pitt
LOS ANGELES: Angelina Jolie
and Brad Pitt are now husband and wife, after a wedding in France described as a
“family affair”.
which was described as a “non-denominational civil ceremony”.
Yesterday, Pitt was photographed wearing a gold ring on
his left ring finger during an event
in Britain to promote his new
Second World War film Fury, in
which he plays a battle-hardened
army sergeant.
Earlier this year, Jolie had told
People that she and Pitt were “not
really in a rush” to get married,
adding: “We’re just waiting for it to
be the right time with the children,
with work, when it feels right.”
Since Girl, Interrupted, Jolie has
played everything from a fairy
tale villain (Maleficent) to a sexy
video game heroine (Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider) to the widow of assassinated American journalist
Daniel Pearl (A Mighty Heart).
The daughter of Oscar-winning
But “Brangelina” has become
the brand name for the hyper
celebrity couple – and humanThe A-list Oscar winners were
itarian campaign team – which
married by a US judge on Saturis Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie,
day in a small chapel at Chateau
who announced yesterday that
Miraval in the southern French
they have finally tied the knot.
village of Correns, a spokeswom“It should be called Brand-gean for the couple said.
lina,” Robert Thompson, profesJolie was walked down the aisle
by her eldest sons Maddox and
sor of popular culture at SyraPax. Her daughters Zahara and
cuse University, said, adding,
Vivienne threw petals, while the
“They are in a category of their
couple’s other two children Shiloh
own.”
and Knox were the ring bearers.
“If either one of them never
“It was very much a family afmade another movie, they’ve
fair,” the spokeswoman said.
got themselves into the status
Pitt and Jolie obtained a maralmost of elder statespersons,
riage licence in California from a
even though they are still young
local US judge, who travelled to
France to conduct the wedding,
and hot and all the rest of it,” he
added.
The Tinseltown royal couple – he is 50 years gest actors in the world, and had been married
old, she is 39 – fell in love on the set of 2005 ac- to actress Jennifer Aniston.
tion film Mr & Mrs Smith, although they didn’t
What made them different from other power
get engaged until 2012. They instantly became couples was their atypical family, with three of
tabloid fodder, with journalists fascinated by their own children and three adopted orphans.
the voluptuous and tattooed Jolie, with a repuTheir joint fortune is estimated at over $300
tation as man-eater. Pitt was also one of the big- million, and they are among the highest paid
actor Jon Voight, Jolie was married to actors Jonny Lee Miller
and Billy Bob Thornton.
The supercouple are now working on By the Sea – their first onscreen appearance together since
Mr and Mrs Smith. The movie is to
be filmed in Malta.
Jolie once delighted gossip columnists by declarations of bisexuality and quirky behaviour such
as wearing a vial of Thornton’s
blood around her neck during
their 2000-2003 marriage.
Of her life with Pitt and children, Jolie told People in May:
“We’ve been through so much,
we’ve gotten a lot closer, which I
think naturally happens with raising a family together.”
“You have this person you live
with who really knows you, and
you know them so well. You’re not
lovers or boyfriend and girlfriend
as much as you are a family,” she
added.
In his recent interview with
Parade, Pitt opened up about his
relationship with Jolie.
“One of the greatest, smartest
things I ever did was give my children Angie as their mum. She’s
such a great mum. With a partner
like Angie, I know that when I’m
working, the children are happy,
safe, and prospering. And when
Angie’s working, she knows she
has the same,” he said.
“I’m satisfied with making true
choices and finding the woman I
love, and building a family that
I love so much. A family is a risky
venture, because the greater the
love, the greater the loss. You’re
putting yourself on the line. That’s
the risk we take. But I’ll take it all.”
stars in Hollywood. Jolie made $18m between
June 2013 and 2014, and twice that the previous year, according to Forbes magazine.
To that has to be added marketing contracts,
notably Pitt’s with perfume giant Chanel.
They also stand out because of the diversity
of their activities: Pitt is both an actor and pro-
n The A-list Oscar winners a
When asked if their children are
the reason she and Pitt stay together, Jolie said: “The children certainly tie us together, but a relationship
won’t hold if it’s only about them.
You also must be really interested in
each other and have a really wonderful, exciting time together. We
ducer, while Jolie made her directorial debut in
2011’s In the Land of Blood and Honey.
Her second feature behind the camera, Second World War film Unbroken, is due for release in December.
They use their star power to promote numerous causes. Jolie long served as a goodwill
ambassador f
Refugees.
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